Elevator for corn-shellers



(No Model.) I

. W. 0; GOTGHALL.

ELEVATOR FOR CORN SHELLERS.

N0,Z8,8,426g Patented Nov. '13, 1883 WIT-NES/S'ES I j make and use the same.

UNITED STATEs PATENT OFFICE \VILLIAM O. GOTGHALL, OF GARFIELD, ILLINOIS.-

ELEVATOR FOR CORN-SHELLERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 288,426, dated November 13, 1883 Application filed July 21, 1883. (No model.)

:9 (all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM OLIVER GOTOHALL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Garfield, in the county of La Salle and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Elevators for Oorn-Shellers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invcnti0n,'such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to This invention relates to improvements in elevators for cornshellers, and has for its ob ject the supply of cars of corn or partly shelled cobs which have oncepassed throughthesheller to the mouth of the sheller, where it falls into the same and is entirely shelled; and the invention consists in the novel construction of parts, as will hereinafter be more fully de scribed, and specifically pointed out in the claim.

In the annexed drawings, to which reference is made, and which fully illustrates my invention, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention. Fig. 2 is aside view of the elevator and upper rest.

Like letters refer to like parts in the several views.

A represents an inclined elevator, composed of two side pieces, a a, slightly. sloping toward each other, and Bis the end piece, to which these side pieces are secured. These side pieces, a a, for about two-thirds of their distance, from their upper ends, are cut down, so as to leave the remaining one-third of the elevator and its lower part deeper, and thus, as it were, form a hopper to receive the ears of corn.

0 is an endless slatted beltpassing over and around shafts or rollers D D, the lower one of which is provided with abevel-gear wheel, M, and the upper one'is journaled in the side pieces, a a, of the elevator at its upper end, and also in the ends of apiece of strap-iron or rod, U, bent in the form of the letter U, which passes underneath the upper end of the elevator, and is secured to the side pieces, a a, by means of bolts and nuts 6 and small braces E on. each side of the elevator A, this end of the elevator merely resting in the bent rod U, which in turn rests upon a sheller or the F rests thelower end. of the elevator A, to

which it is securely held in place by means of vertical rods J, which pass down through the main frame F just behind two gearwheels, 6:; L and M, and said rods J are bolted to the un der side of the frame F, sufficient room being given for the operation of said gear-wheels, as will be hereinafter more fully explained.

Journaled in the main frame F, and running longitudinally with a main shaft, to be hereinafter referred to, is a shaft, K, provided on its inner end with a bevel-gear wheel, L, which meshes with another bevel-gear wheel, M, on the end of a transverse shaft, N, which passes through the lower end of the elevator A. The opposite end of this shaft K is pro vided with a belt-wheel, 0, over which passes a belt, P, which also passes over another belt- Wheel, Q, upon the end of a main or driving shaft, Q, through the medium of which motion is imparted to the elevator-belt or carrier by means of a fly or balance wheel secured. to the other end of the drivingshaft Q, (not shown in the drawings,) or by any suitable motor.

The corn to be elevated is placed in the lower end of the elevator by the operator, and the ears are conveyed by the carrier up to the highest part of'the elevator, dropped into the 0 mouth of the sheller, and thoroughly shelled and passed through the sheller in the ordinary manner.

My elevator is adapted to any sheller provided with a main shaft, to which the belt can 5 be used to run the machinery by any suitable motor which may be desirable to use. It is simple in its construction, cheaply manufactured, and exceedingly durable.

.What I claim as new, and desire to secure 109 by Letters Patent, is

The elevatorframe A, having a hopper shaped lower end to receive the ears of corn, the frame F, having the Vertical rods J and bolts, its upper end being adapted to rest on a.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

WILLIAM OLIVER GOTOHALL.

\Vitnesses:

F. H. Bonn, T. M. MOULTON. 

